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Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA
Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard
No amount of Glasgow handshaking will revive this borked kiosk
The curse of knowing a bit about IT: 'Could you just...?' and 'No I haven't changed anything'
BOFH: Time for the MMOCC. You know, the Massively Moronic Online Christmas Call
Saturday 26th December 2020 10:02 GMT 
Re: Pardon?
PFY would have some SLA verbiage to protect himself from frivolous tickets such as these. It would have been written into his contract long before this need.
Just think of the literary possibilities when the PFY has access to users personal gear!
I think you're applying your feelings of trepidation to the PFYs situation.
Friday 25th December 2020 19:31 GMT 
Pardon?
The PFY is passing up a chance to install stuff remotely on people's home kit?
"I look over in the PFY's direction to note that he's not all that keen on remotely installing/supporting software on people's systems..."
Who is this Charlatan claiming to be the PFY? The PFY I have known and come to love would surely added his own custom payload...
Friday 25th December 2020 19:20 GMT
Great minds think alike?
"Oh, it's not mine," I say. "I've written a script to pick a random image from the browser cache of our user's desktops."
Do I get royalties?
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/10/19/who_me/#c_4130352
Ah, screw it, today is Christmas, have one on me!
Glad to see the Lads again!
Yes, Microsoft Access was a recalcitrant beast, but the first step is to turn the computer on
Everybody's time is precious, pal: Sometimes it isn't only the terminals that are dumb
Sunday 27th December 2020 10:07 GMT
One of my favs
Receiving a call on the hotline... trying my best to resolve it with out moving my ass. No dice! Hang up the phone, and trek on down to ground zero, only to walk in the office and see the user with the phone up to their ear and an embarrassed look on their face. " I was just phoning you back to say the issue is resolved now" Without missing a beat I keep walking.
Pedant as his expression is close enough to the users
My website has raised its anchor and set sail into the internet oceans without me
A pub denied: One man's tale of festive frolics postponed by the curse of the On Call phone
Friday 25th December 2020 12:36 GMT 
Nice work
When you can get it. I remember a few 16 hour days, when our vendor at time couldn't figure out our networking issue, and sent a team to investigate\correct the issue, as their remote support was drawing blanks. I followed their guys around and opened switch cabinets for double time pay...
Elon Musk says he tried to sell Tesla to Apple, which didn’t bite and wouldn't even meet
'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum
NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir
And you thought that $999 Mac stand was dear: Steve Wozniak's Apple II doodles fetch $630,272 at auction
Windows might have frozen – but at least my feet are toasty
Search history can calculate better credit ratings than pay slips, says International Monetary Fund
Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines
Atlantic City auctions off chance to hit Big Red Button and make grotesque Trump Plaza casino go boom
Dodgy procedures doomed Arianespace's Vega before it even left the launchpad
Friday 18th December 2020 12:56 GMT 
Wrong photo for this story
I remember when El Reg would have pulled the Airplane still of the guy holding cables and that look on his face...
I would hate to be the guy who mixed up these connectors. I'm no rocket scientist, but wouldn't it be prudent to make different shaped connectors for stuff like this? Making it impossible to cross lines?
Cats: Not a fan favourite when the critters are draped around an office packed with tech
Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password
Thursday 17th December 2020 09:05 GMT
Re: no one has to care what appears on Trump’s Twitter feed ever again
I'm pretty sure most of the news agencies can't wait for Uncle Donnie to be out of the WH. They can stop printing in yellow fonts. (that's yellow journalism for you youngins)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Fast forward two years, and if Uncle Donnie is healthy, and not in the slammer, he will start up the yellow press again. Hopefully people have learned not to listen.
As UK breaks away from Europe, Facebook tells Brits: You'll all be Californians soon
Google told BGP to forget its Euro-cloud – after first writing bad access control lists
We're not saying this is how SolarWinds was backdoored, but its FTP password 'leaked on GitHub in plaintext'
Wednesday 16th December 2020 08:40 GMT 
I had to assist a user who would be taking a computer home with the vpn connection. I used my phone for a temporary hotspot to test. I thought i made an easy password 12345678 I kept trying to connect the computer to my hotspot and it failed. I checked the hotspot password again, I fat fingered 12345679 SolarWinds maybe the password should have been SolarWinds124
Twitter scores a first for big tech after being fined €450,000 by Ireland's data watchdog for violating the EU's GDPR
45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware
Tim Cook 'killed' TV project about the one website Apple hates more than The Register
Why did Johnny and Jenny's exam grades yo-yo over the summer? Here's some of the code behind UK results chaos
World+dog share in collective panic attack as Google slides off the face of the internet
Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us
Cruise, Kidman and an unfortunate misunderstanding at the local chemist
Monday 14th December 2020 09:46 GMT
Re: Hmm
It also strikes me as odd that a company would think nothing of spending an awful lot of money on film and development without either their own dark room facility, or understand the savings that would have come with an (even that expensive) digital camera.
Or sourced it out to a professional darkroom\processor. I know my uni had to send our film projects to a company in Detroit from Chicago. But I'm pretty sure the photog dept had their own darkroom.
It does seem odd, but then again, maybe that cost was just passed along to the customer, and even with a markup?
Rogue ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences and cost Cisco millions gets two years in US prison
Adios California, Oracle the latest tech firm to leave California for the wide open (low tax) Lone Star State
Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there
What does my neighbour's Tesla have in common with a stairlift?
BOFH: Switch off the building? Great idea, Boss
Google Chrome's crackdown on ad blockers and browser extensions, Manifest v3, is now available in beta
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